Enjoy Tea With The SVP to support your community
The SVP is celebrating the Society's birthday with a week-long campaign to raise funds for our grassroots work fighting poverty with dignity.The Tea With The SVP campaign, which runs from 19-23 with...
Published on 14/04/2021
SVP member celebrates 100th birthday with charity challenge
Indefatigable great-grandmother Pat Bishop is marking her 100th birthday by walking 500 steps every day during Lent to raise money for families around the world living without access to water.Pat, and...
Published on 15/03/2021
‘Angels’ came to help me, now I’m one of them
International Women’s Day celebrates gender equality, and the strength and bravery of women to create an inclusive world. When Alison’s world fell apart, she had to draw on her resilience and of a...
Published on 08/03/2021
Jenny completes 1,000-mile trek for Sudan appeal
Jenny Wilson, 74, of Bletchingley, Surrey, embodies International Women’s Day. She has completed a 1,000 mile trek to raise money for the SVP’s Baby Feeding Programme in South Sudan, but she sign...
Published on 07/03/2021
SVP responds to the Chancellor’s Budget, March 3, 2021
By Elizabeth Palmer, CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society (England and Wales)Today’s Budget delivered by Chancellor Rishi Sunak represents one of the most important political statements of and at a...
Published on 03/03/2021
This Lent give up a little time to help others, SVP urges
The SVP is encouraging people to make Lent extra meaningful this year by giving up a little of their time to help others during the Covid-19 pandemic.It’s traditional for many to give up some other...
Published on 17/02/2021
Random acts of kindness matter
By Lindsay MacRae, Centre Coordinator for services at the SVP’s St Vincent’s Centre, Brighton (Tower House).It’s like waiting for a tidal wave to hit. You know what’s out there. You for it as...
Published on 02/02/2021
Screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce voices SVP film project
Acclaimed Merseyside screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell-Boyce has added his voice to a new series of films for the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP).The writer, who penned movies Welcome (1997),...
Published on 01/02/2021